A fully-illustrated instructional printmaking book presenting step-by-step examples alongside representative works from thirty top contemporary printmaking artists. Printmaking is flourishing in the digital age, appealing to both "traditional" artists as well as those interested in graphic design and digital technique. This all-in-one guide to printmaking techniques is a complete technical and inspirational book on the history and contemporary processes for relief, intaglio, lithography, serigraphy, mixed media/transfers and post digital graphics, with extended profiles of a wide range of contemporary printmakers. Featuring instruction, interviews, example images and philosophy, this beautiful book provides a truly modern look at printmaking today, in all its forms.
Foreword by Ira Goldberg vi
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction 1
Some Basic Terms and Definitions 2
About This Book 7
Part I: Relief Printmaking
1 | Relief Printmaking Background and Basics 11
A Brief History 11
Western- versus Japanese-Style
Relief Printing 18
2 | Woodblock Printing 29
Equipment and Materials for
Woodcuts 29
Reduction-Method Woodblock
Printing 31
Western-Style Multiblock Woodcuts 43
Japanese-Style Multiblock Woodcuts
(Ukiyo-e) 44
3 | Linoleum Block Printing 49
Equipment and Materials for Linocuts 49
Single-Color (Black and White)
Linocuts 50
Color Reduction Linocuts 53
Part II: Intaglio Printmaking
4 | Intaglio Printmaking Background
and Basics 61
A Brief History 65
Equipment and Materials 72
Preparing the Plate 77
5 | Non-Acid Intaglio Techniques 81
Drypoint 82
Engraving 83
Mezzotint 87
6 | Acid Intaglio Techniques 97
Hard Ground Etching 97
Soft Ground Etching 103
Aquatint 109
Acid-Resist Open Bite Etching 125
Embossing 129
Sugar Lift 132
7 | Collography 137
8 | Photo-Etching and Photogravure 143
Polymer Photo-Etching 143
Toner Transfer Photo-Etching 151
Polymer Photogravure 155
9 | Printing Intaglio 159
Printing in Monochrome 159
Printing in Multiple Colors à la Poupée 162
Printing in Multiple Colors-Color
Separation Method 163
Roll-up Viscosity Printing 163
Part III: Lithography
And Serigraphy
10 | Lithography 169
A Brief History 171
Equipment and Materials 177
Stone Lithography 181
Hand-Drawn Lithography on
Aluminum 200
Photolithography 206
Pronto Polyester Lithography 214
Paper Lithography 221
11 | Serigraphy 225
A Brief History 226
Equipment and Materials 228
Basic Screen Printing Techniques 230
Part IV: Chine-Collé, Mixed Media, and New Printmaking Techniques
12 | Chine-Collé 239
13 | Mixed Media 251
Richard Pitts 252
Jase Clark 256
Slavko Djuric 260
Shelley Thorstensen 264
Janet Millstein 268
Marcin Wlodarczyk 272
14 | Digital Transfers 276
15 | Post-Digital Graphics 285
Resources 296
For Further Reading 299
About the Author 301
Index 302
